Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, Deputy President of the Senate (“DSP”) first significant foray into public service was when he was appointed as Executive Assistant to Governor James Ibori of Delta State (2003-2005). The DSP, a lawyer, later served as Commissioner...
“There are ambassadors who are here years, and pass on, and no one notices that they were ever here, that certainly wasn’t the case with Amb. Adefuye – J.Peter Pham, director of the Africa Center at the Atlantic Council,...
After the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) probe saga, there are now insinuations by every Tom, Dick, and Harry over the level of corruption and mismanagement that might be going on in the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC). With...
The last 48 hours has witnessed varying degrees of reactions to the trending video of a former Minister of Aviation in Nigeria, Femi Fani-Kayode, passionately rebuking a journalist for asking him who was bankrolling his cross-country visit to several...
SAN FRANCISCO, August 27, (THEWILL) - More awards have come the way of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and its Executive Vice Chairman, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta in recognition of the critical role the Commission has been playing in...
SAN FRANCISCO, August 27, (THEWILL) - In this news article, Akanimo Sampson writes that Nigeria and 15 other African countries are currently experiencing circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses outbreaks (cVDPV2).
This is coming into the open as the independent Africa Regional Certification...
SAN FRANCISCO, August 27, (THEWILL) - In this news article, Akanimo Sampson examines how Nigeria got the World Health Organisation's Polio Free certification after almost two decades of sustained fight against the disease that gulped billions of naira.
By July...
SAN FRANCISCO, August 27, (THEWILL) - The Central Bank has issued a directive to licensed bureau de change operators to sell dollars to customers at the rate not higher than N386 - $1.
The directive was communicated to the licensed operators...
SAN FRANCISCO, August 27, (THEWILL) - President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Bashir Babajo as Executive Director Operations, Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation, NAIC, for a period of four years in the first instance with effect from August 2020,...
SAN FRANCISCO, August 27, (THEWILL) - Former super Eagles winger, Finidi George, says that the Super Eagles could have defeated the Italians at the USA1994 World Cup Round of 16 stage and advanced to the quarter–finals of the competition but...